Sailscow was born from the meeting between Jean-Michel Linck, sailor builder and Gildas Plessis naval architect. Both wanted to propose a cruising sailboat with a scow bow. This one offers multiple advantages of comfort and habitability, in addition to making high performance hulls.
The choice of epoxy CP construction was made to offer customers the possibility to buy a pre-cut kit and consider building it themselves. To demonstrate the feasibility, Jean-Michel Linck undertook the construction of the first example on his own funds.
Smaller (8.50 m), the Sailscow 28 offers exactly the same advantages as its big brother. Its scow bow allows sailing with little heel thanks to its shape stability, but also allows sailing without wetting the deck too much (the boat bounces on the waves instead of crossing them). In addition, the large volume of the bow offers a double berth of an unusual size on an 8.50 m sailboat.
This yacht will be available with a choice of 3 types of appendages: long draft (2.30 m), short draft (1.90 m with a 200 kg heavier keel) and lifting keel.
Like its big brothers, this yacht will be available as a complete kit (including fittings) that only needs to be assembled in a puzzle-like fashion. But the shipyard also offers different levels of finishing, it can deliver the boat at different stages of manufacture, from the complete kit for amateur builders, from the decked hull to be finished, to the finished custom boat ready to sail.
